Comments for Creative Pharmacist

Comment on The Law or The Patient by john

john — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:33:23 +0000

We have given up our professional training by allowing PBMs to question every prescription to extremes and our every judgement on these rxs. State boards of Pharmacy are not as insulting to our professional judgements as a PBM audit. All pharmacist should be demanding an end to this trend.

Comment on What’s the Point? by Ethan Adams

Ethan Adams — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:48:00 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. I do not know if this will happen, but my happy vision of what a pharmacy looks like is a pharmacy that schedules appointments for patients based on when they will pick-up their medications. An initial appointment can be scheduled separately if needed, but a follow-up appointment can be set in 3-6 months depending on the disease state and complications. During that time, the patient can pickup their medications as normal and ask questions if there are any and go on their way. After the allotted time, the pharmacy staff gives the patient a call 1 week before or so and reminds the patient of their follow-up appointment with the pharmacist and that when they pick-up their prescriptions they’ll have a more in-depth one-on-one talk to follow-up on previous goals and knowledge base. Obviously if a patient has new medications or a major change in their health, an appointment can be made sooner. In fact this may seem like more of a doctor’s office schedule than a pharmacy, but I believe (and I hope) that this could be and should be the wave of the future for pharmacies, whether retail or independent. Outcomes based counseling and patient direction is the natural evolution of such a pharmacy where appointments are set, kept and then recorded in a patient database similar to what physicians keep. This is my dream . . . and I plan on making it happen!!
Ethan Adams 4th year pharmacy student, University of Utah

Comment on The Law or The Patient by John J. Ross

John J. Ross — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:43:18 +0000

I do agree with you. This is called patient care. I would have taken the same approach as you did.
I am a prcaticing pharmacist in a medical center in Austin, Texas for the last 17 years.
We offer exceptional care to every patient every day with a spirit of warmth,frienliness and personal pride.

Comment on The Law or The Patient by Rajesh

Rajesh — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:42:14 +0000

This is a fantastic forum. I agree with your comments above and would like to add that I have worked as a outcomes researcher and clinical pharmacist for more than 9 years combined. It is these kinds of interactions with the patients/families that are crucial to our practice of pharmacy.
Cheers,
Rajesh
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